Quote by Thomas S. Kuhn

“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“So knowledge grows by subtraction much more than by addition—given that what we know today might turn out to be wrong but what we…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what…

— Anonymous

“The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.”

— Ben Midland

“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!”

— Abhijit Kar Gupta

“In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“For the beginner, novelty is anything that hasn’t been encountered before. For the expert, novelty is nuance.”

— Angela Duckworth

“We cannot fathom technology that is unknown to us, and we seldom consider things that seem impossible to us.”

— Christopher Dunn

“The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence…

— Aldous Huxley

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”

— A.A. Milne

“Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“One can only discover what has already come into existence.”

— Shirley Hazzard